More Music Quotes

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“When words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine (German Poet and Writer, 1797-1856)

“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.”
santiz E. Y. Harburg (American Lyricist, Librettist and Song Writer, 1896-1981)

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”
Frederick Delius (English Composer, one of the most distinctive figures in the revival of English music at the end of the 19th century. 1862-1934)

“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (Italian propagandist and revolutionary, Founder of the secret revolutionary society Young Italy (1832). 1805-1872)

“Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
Marcel Marceau (French Mime Artist, b.1923. He was the world’s most famous mime and creator of Bip, the white-faced clown.)

“The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Composer and Musician. 1685-1750)

“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
santiz Virgil Thomson (American Composer, 1896-1989)

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds.”
Jules Combarieu

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”
Confucius (China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

“Music is the universal language of mankind”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (the most popular American Poet in the 19th century, 1807-1882)

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.”
Oscar Wilde (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Berthold Auerbach (German novelist, 1812-1882)

“Music is the soul of language.”
Max Heindel